Two leading literary journals celebrate collaboration on Salon Des Refusés

There's a commendable collaboration between Canadian Notes & Queries and The New Quarterly, which have joined forces in their current issue(s) to "tweak the beak" of the Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories.

They call the issue(s) the Salon Des Refusés* and put the spotlight on twenty of the best short story writers in Canada who are NOT included in the Penguin collection.

Writers included in the joint Salon are:

Mike Barnes, Heather Birrell, Clark Blaise, Sharon English, Cynthia Flood, Keath Fraser, Douglas Glover, Terry Griggs, Mark Anthony Jarman, Elizabeth Harvor, Steven Heighton, Hugh Hood, Norman Levine, John Metcalf, Bharati Mukherjee, Patricia Robertson, Diane Schoemperlen, Ray Smith, Russell Smith and Patricia Young.

Suitable to the occasion, a launch is to be held on Wednesday August 13th, at 8:30 p.m. at the Pages Books and Magazines "This is Not a Reading Series" at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto.

There will be a panel discussion on the role of criticism, canon-making and the state of the Canadian short story. The panel will be moderated by TNQ editor Kim Jernigan; panelists will include Salon Refuse-niks Heather Birrell, Mike Barnes and Sharon English; CNQ critical contributors Adrian Michael Kelly and Steven Beattie; and CNQ editor Dan Wells.

*[In 1863, after a clamour from artists about selections for the Paris Salon, a parallel exhibition was staged from the work of those left out called the Salon Des Refusés.]

Much ado about very little (cancult.ca)